The paper presents a small unmanned probing ship that can be used for acquiring information on marine and coastal environments. For communication system, we adopt direct and indirect methods based on the wireless modem of a commercial cellular telephone. The former is a direct communication between the modems of the ship and the server, and the latter is an indirect communication via internet between the ship and the server. The system is equipped with a digital compass and a GPS for position estimation, and extended Kalman filter is used for Navigation. The performance of the ship is demonstrated with the results produced by sets of experiments.